My somewhat uninformed understanding holds that the Soviet Union was never terribly economically healthy post-WW2; Gorbachev certainly took actions that hastened its demise, but it wasn't an oops-life-was-grand-until-YOU-screwed-things-up sort of situation. True, I read quite a bit on the Soviet Un...
"Sadly I realised that according to several sources and studies, the real life big build up of Soviet Unions surface fleet was one of the main factors that led to the economical collapse of Soviet Union..." I was under the impression that Gorbachev's attempts to achieve "overnight" economic and pol...
Just a Question: Are you planning to make a map of this AU and/or show us some of the navies of the other Axis/Axis Aligned (Francoist Spain, Vichy France, the Italian Social Republic, Japan) and the other Allied (Britain, U.S., Rump Soviet Union, etc.) powers? If not, I'd love to do my own AU with ...
Two beautiful ships that, like the QE2 and the France , showed the world how modern and stylish an ocean liner could be. :D Pity they sold them to the Iranians, though. I mean, Costa made an offer to buy and operate the two (as well as several other Italian Line ships like the Leonardo da Vinci ) as...
Finally someone does the QE's! :D I read that the design was so good that Greece wanted to purchase the Valiant from the British (who flatly refused, but offered to build a sister). Of course, Greece also considered purchasing a copy of the battlecruiser Kongo, so it's difficult to know how seriousl...